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Controversy over the film dedicated to the Foibe: the Region asks for the dissolution of the Anpi
"Tuesday 5 February the film “Red Istria” will be shown in Italian cinemas. The protests of some Venetian sections of the ANPI have sent councilor Donazzan into a rage."
Tuesday 5 February, in 100 Italian cinemas, of which about twenty in Veneto, on the occasion of "Remembrance Day" (which will be officially celebrated on 10 February), “Red Land – Rosso Istria” will be screened, a film by Maximiliano Hernando Bruno which recalls the dramatic events suffered since September 1943 by the Istrian people, Fiumane, Julian and Dalmatians, persecuted, killed and driven from their homes and the land where they lived.
«The Veneto Region – explains the culture councilor, Cristiano Corazzari – wanted to support, together with other bodies and institutions, the creation of this film to pay homage to the many of our compatriots who paid for their 'being Italian' with their lives and with a very painful exile, their feeling of belonging to their homeland. The film tells the story of the martyrdom of Istrian student Norma Cossetto – concludes Corazzari –, one of the many victims of anti-Italian hatred that led to the massacre of thousands of innocents. Yet there are still those who shamelessly deny this ignominious page of history: as institutions we have the duty to respond to any form of shameful and unacceptable revisionism, to protect the memory and make the new generations aware of the tragedy and exodus of a people". Read More